Menopause : : A Comic Treatment / / ed. by MK Czerwiec.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Barry, Lynda,; Burdock, Maureen,; Camper, Jennifer,; Councilor, Kc,; Czerwiec, Mk,; Ewing, Leslie,; Farmer, Joyce,; Forney, Ellen,; Fox, Ann M.,; Geniza, Keet,; Gregory, Roberta,; Harrison, Teva,; House, Rachael,; Jones, Leah,; Lalanda, Monica,; Leamy, Cathy,; Mance, Ajuan,; Moran, Jessica,; Pond, Mimi,; Rosenzweig, Sharon,; Schachter, Joyce,; Squier, Susan Merrill,; Steinberg, Emily,; Streeten, Nicola,; Summers, A. K.,; Tobimatsu, Kimiko,; Tyler, Carol,; Wall, Shelley L.,; Walrath, Dana,
• HerausgeberIn: Czerwiec, MK,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Graphic Medicine ; 19
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (144 p.) :; 77 color/59 b&w illustrations

Like so many other issues surrounding women’s reproductive health, menopause has been treated as a cultural taboo. On the rare occasions that menopausal and perimenopausal women are depicted in popular culture, they are stereotypically cast as the butt of demeaning jokes that encourage us to laugh a...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Menopause
• Menopositive!
• #crockpotrunner
• When My Biological Clock Stopped Ticking
• Burning Up
• Desertification
• Zen and the Art of Menopausal Maintenance
• Climacteric Calamity
• My Menopause Story
• “Are You Sexually Active?”: Vaginal Truth Telling
• Invisible Lady
• The End, for Now
• A Slow Intermittent Leak
• 2.14 am–4.43 am: Let Me Introduce Myself
• Any Day Now
• Cycles
• An End Is Not the End
• Ready, Set, “Pause”
• The Big Change
• 84 Paused
• 90 Kimiko Does Menopause
• Surgical Menopause—in Ten Postures
• When the Menopause Carnival Comes to Town
• (A) Men-O-Pause
• Antique Restoration
• Resources
• List of Contributors